Reissue includes Best over Hammersmith live album

BMG has announced the release Iron Maiden – The Number of The Beast/Beast Over Hammersmith on 3 LP on November 18th. The project commemorates the 40th Anniversary of the European band’s seminal third album, The Number Of The Beast, which was also the first to feature Bruce Dickinson on vocals and was to become the record which catapulted the band to international stardom.

The package includes Beast Over Hammersmith – available now officially for the very first time on vinyl – featuring the live concert from March 1982’s now legendary Hammersmith Odeon London show from the Beast On The Road World Tour. Recorded only days before the release of The Number Of The Beast album, it’s remarkable to think these now classic songs at that time were still new, unfamiliar and being heard live by fans for the very first time. A real piece of history in the making.

The package features exclusive liner notes written by Maiden founder and bassist Steve Harris as well as restored and expanded artwork taken from the CD format of Beast Over Hammersmith, previously only available in the Limited Edition Eddie’s Archive box set originally released in 2002.

“On this vinyl release we get the chance to put ‘Total Eclipse’ in its rightful spot on the album for the first time,” Harris says. “The reason it didn’t make it in the first place was that it was all a mad rush when we were finishing the record and we had to get the Run to the Hills single out before the tour and we basically had to pick a B-side and it was between ‘Gangland’ and ‘Total Eclipse’ and we just picked the wrong one, really! I think ‘Total Eclipse’ is a stronger song and the album would have been stronger if it had been on there.”

3 LP

LP 1: The Number Of The Beast

A1. Invaders
A2. Children Of The Damned
A3. The Prisoner
A4.22 Acacia Avenue
B1. The Number Of The Beast
B2. Run To The Hills
B3. Total Eclipse*
B4. Hallowed Be Thy Name

LP 2: Beast Over Hammersmith

C1. Murders In The Rue Morgue
C2. Wrathchild
C3. Run To The Hills
C4. Children of The Damned
C5. The Number Of The Beast
F1. Another Life
F2. Killers
F3. 22 Acacia Avenue
F4. Total Eclipse
F5. Transylvania

LP 3: Beast Over Hammersmith

G1. The Prisoner
G2. Hallowed Be Thy Name
G3. Phantom Of The Opera
G4. Iron Maiden
H1. Sanctuary
H2. Drifter
H3. Running Free
H4. Prowler